At some point, I’m going to have to write a full comparison of Sugar Rush and South of Nowhere.
On further watching – Sugar Rush really is SoN on acid. I still don’t feel like rooting for any particular couple, but Kim is much more identifiable than I thought, and I do want her to find love. But the really interesting bit comes at the end of season 1, when they decide to run away from home. SoN did the same thing, only… not.
In SoN they ran away, the car ran out of gas, they hid in a restaurant, called the dad, and were threatened by a conveniently placed pervert (or was it an imaginary pervert?). It was all very after-school-specially.
Moral: Don’t run away from home.
In Sugar Rush, they run away, drive like idiots with no apparent repercussions, rent an obscenely expensive hotel room with the mom’s credit card, and have sex all night before the police manage to track them down.
Moral: Uhh…. Credit card theft rocks?
Yeah.
Honestly, I wouldn’t want my kids (should I ever have them) to watch Sugar Rush before they turn at least 17 or so. SoN is obviously more teen-appropriate. Still – there’s no denying that Sugar Rush is more realisticish (relatively speaking), and much more exciting.
Moral: British People are Crazy (and mildly cool).